* Alexander Starkov resigned as head coach of Spartak Moscow soccer club. Vladimir Fedotov was appointed acting head coach until the appointment of a new coach.
* At the 2006 European wrestling championship in the Greco-Roman, female and freestyle in Moscow (through April 30)
- Yelena Perepyolkina won the gold in the women's 67-kg category by defeating Kristina Odrina of Latvia in the final. Irina Tsyrkevich of Belarus and Poland's Agnieszka Wieszczek took bronze medals
- Lyubov Volosova beat Stephanie Stueber of Germany in the finals to win the gold in the women's 59-kg category. Marianna Sastin of Hungary and France's Audrey Prieto-Bokhashvili took the bronze
- Natalya Smirnova beat Oleksandra Kohut of Ukraine in the bronze-medal bout in the women's 51-kg category. Vanessa Boubryem of France won the gold and Alexandra Engelhardt of Germany took silver
* At the 2006 World Team Table Tennis Championships in Bremen, Germany (through May 1):
- The Russian women's team lost to Singapore 2:3 in the third round of Division 1 preliminary Group D
Group D third-round results and standings:
Russia - Singapore - 2:3
Japan - Croatia - 3:0
USA - Slovakia - 3:2
1 Japan - games-3/points-6 /set difference 9-1
2 Singapore - 3/5/8-6
3 Croatia - 3/5/6-5
4 Russia - 3/4/6-6
5 USA - 3/4/3-8
5 Slovakia - 3/3/3-9
* At the $950,000 Open Seat 2006 tennis tournament in Barcelona, Spain
- Yevgeny Korolev cruised to the third round of men's singles by defeating Fernando Vicente of Spain 6:3, 6:0
- Teimuraz Gabashvili failed to advance to the third round of men's singles, losing to Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland 4:6, 7:6, 4:6.
- Dmitry Tursunov and Novak Djokovic of Serbia and Montenegro beat international duo Andrei Pavel of Romania and Paradorn Srichaphan of Thailand in the first round of men's doubles 7:5, 6:1
* VBM-SGAU Samara beat UGMK Yekaterinburg 79:60 at home in the first leg of the national women's basketball SuperLeague championship's best-of-five final.
Dinamo Moscow beat Spartak Moscow Region 71:68 at home in the first leg of the best-of-five bronze-medal tie
The remaining final and bronze-medal legs are set for April 26, 30 (May 1 and May 5 if necessary)
